Essentials: Get Your Support Team in Place

Community Health Toolbox Stress Management May 19, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot about support lately… As in Who’s on YOUR support team?

Specifically, I’ve been counting my blessings at my good fortune. I am lucky to have a great support team in place.

And, by great, I mean those people who you know you can call at 3 o’clock in the morning if you have a disaster. You may never need to call. But if you do, they’re the ones who are there for you. That great.

I’m pretty sure my support team know who they are. I hope they know how much I appreciate them.

Even more, I hope they feel the same way about me.

Who’s on your team?

That’s not a rhetorical question. I’d love to know. But, even more importantly, I’d like you to know. Because these are the people that matter.

These are the people who pick you up when you stumble. The ones who believe in you, even if they don’t necessarily agree with your choices. They are the ones who celebrate the wins with you. And, they are also the ones who don’t judge if you fail.

“I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.”
― Amy Poehler

And, it’s when you make a big change in your life that it becomes even more important to know who’s on your team.

Big change is a big deal. It takes work. There’s often risk involved. Sometimes it means you are taking a path less travelled. It can be controversial. And, that means there’ll be nay-sayers.

It’s good to know who’s got your back.

JFC AIP Australia Bloggers — My local AIP support team – Rory (The Paleo PI) and Kirstie (Kirstie Howard Living Well)

“You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.” – Sabrina Bryan

Choosing to take a significantly more proactive role in my health was a big change for me. It involved considerable adjustments to both my diet and lifestyle.

And, with the benefit of hindsight, I can say it was made so much easier because of my support team.

If you’ve been on this AIP caper for a while now you’d like more support, I invite you to join the next AIP Reset program – 30-days of getting back to AIP diet and lifestyle basics and resetting in a supportive community of like-minded AIPers who understand and face similar challenges.

Joanna Frankham / About Author

Joanna Frankham helps you to make lasting diet and lifestyle choices that serve you. Jo is your AIP Mentor and Certified Health Coach who uses tools, rituals and group programs (like her foundational AIP Reset group program) to help you break down the AIP framework into manageable pieces; all to enable you to implement positive changes to improve your health. Jo’s special sauce is her ability to facilitate bringing AIPers together in a way that is informed, inclusive and encouraging. Chronic illness doesn’t have to be isolating.